So I know it has been several days since I have written, but nothing truly unique and exciting has happened. Or a lot of really cool stuff has happened, but sometimes it gets hard to say anything when there is so much to say (imagine that from me).
This is a nothing entry because I really have nothing to say. I am off to Leon tonight. . I start my internship tomorrow morning. I am titilating (that word is so incredibly mispelled that I can't even blame the keyboard) with excitement and nervousness. . .so nervous. I swear my Spanish is worse today than it was when I entered the country. It's like now I am aware of all of the mistakes that I am making. .before I just made them cluelessly. Sigh. . I just keep reminding myself that fluency is a journey rather than a destination. . I'm not really sure what it means, but it's poetic in a cheesy way and it makes me feel better. Now instead of just stringing together several random words in random tenses, I stop and start my sentances over and over again, repeat a verb in 5 different tenses (preterite, imperfect, wait, no, conditional, or maybe this is where I use the subjuntive), stutter through long words and then hit my head against the table in a feeble attempt to convey that I know what I said was about as intelligable as the squeaks of a dolphin. Trying to learn another language is truly a form of masichism. And then yesterday in walks a Czech girl living in the states who is fluent in English, Czech, and can understand about 6 other languages. And her Spanish is far superior to mine and she has only been studying it since January. . .she takes the occasional class, listens to the radio, and reads. Some people just have the gift. . and yes, I am jealous of them.
I have people that I have to go say Adios to. It's amazing how you run in to the most incredible people when you travel, but more on that later.
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